Philosophy audiobooks

Moral Choices

By: Scott Rae

Narrated by: Maurice England

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Understanding the basis of making moral choices is crucial as society becomes increasingly complex. Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics gives college students a solid grounding in both theory of ethics and its applications to the social issues of today. Avoiding undue dogmatism, Professor Scott B. Rae outlines the distinctive elements of... Read more

Angoisse et anxiété

By: Michelle Larvey

Narrated by: Martine Mignot

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

L'angoisse et l'anxiété sont les équivalents psychiques de la douleur : des signes de notre organisme pour nous avertir d'un problème négligé. Il est relativement facile d'y trouver des solutions si on comprend bien ce qui se passe et si on connaît les moyens d'en tenir compte. Mais si on ignore ce précieux signal, nous glissons vers des... Read more

L'amitié - Éthique à Nicomaque, livres VIII et IX

By: Aristote

Narrated by: Pierre Tissot

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

L'Éthique à Nicomaque d'Aristote est composée de neuf livres qui traitent des moyens d'atteindre le bonheur en développant la vertu. Les deux derniers livres sont consacrés à définir l'amitié, telle qu'elle existe et telle qu'elle doit être vécue par l'homme vertueux. La méthode aristotélicienne permet de distinguer les différentes causes et les... Read more

Buddha and the Quantum

By: Samuel Avery

Narrated by: Samuel Avery

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Buddha and the Quantum is about the connection between meditation and physics. Many books show parallels between consciousness and physics; a few of these attempt to explain consciousness in terms of the physics of everyday experience. This is the only book on the market that explains physics and the everyday world in terms of consciousness... Read more

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is the most famous and influential work of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The work is a philosophical novel in which the character of Zarathustra, a religious prophet–like figure, delivers a series of lessons and sermons in a Biblical style that articulate the central... Read more

Self-Reliance

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Kurt Andersen & Joyce Bean

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Redefining the classic essay, this modern edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most famous work, Self-Reliance, includes self-reflections from both historical and contemporary luminaries. With quotes from the likes of Henry Ford and Helen Keller to modern-day thought leaders like Jesse Dylan, Steve Pressfield, and Milton Glaser, we’re reminded of... Read more

Select Essays

By: Michel de Montaigne

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Michel de Montaigne, one of the foremost writers of the French Renaissance and the originator of the genre of the essay, wrote on subjects ranging from friendship to imagination, from language to conscience. This collection includes twenty-two of Montaigne's essays, including "Of Prognostications," "Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes," "Of... Read more

The Key

By: Whitley Strieber

Narrated by: Gregory Itzin

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Communion comes the mysterious true story of how an unknown visitor barged into Streiber's hotel room late one night--and imparted extraordinary lessons in personal development and man's fate that challenge us to rethink every assumption about the meaning of life.At two-thirty in the morning of June 6, 1998,... Read more

Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals

By: Immanuel Kant

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Immanuel Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, first published in 1785, lays out Kant's essential philosophy and defines the concepts and arguments that would shape his later work. Central to Kant's doctrine is the categorical imperative, which he defines as a mandate that human actions should always conform to a universal,... Read more

Terrible Swift Sword

By: Bruce Catton

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 19 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Terrible Swift Sword (Vol. 2): The dismissal of George McClellan and the rise of Ulysses S. Grant Read more

De l'amitié

By: Michel de Montaigne

Narrated by: Michaël Lonsdale

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

De l'amitié est tiré des Essais de Montaigne, publiés en 1595, à titre posthume. C'est par l'introspection la plus honnête que l'auteur cherche à comprendre l'humanité, par le raisonnement mais aussi par la compréhension intime de ses propres émotions. L'amitié est une rencontre. Quand Montaigne raconte avec bonheur sa relation avec Estienne de... Read more

The Bond

By: Lynne McTaggart

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Intention Experiment and The Field comes a groundbreaking new work—a book that uses the interconnectedness of mind and matter to demonstrate that the key to life is in the relationship between things.



We are always connected with others, hardwired at our most elemental level—from the quantum level to the... Read more

Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed

By: Howard Gardner

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The True, the Good, and the Beautiful are as timeless a trio of concepts as Western culture has to offer. Since before Socrates, humankind has explored these virtues in an attempt to describe and categorize them. Our definitions of these concepts, moreover, have unceasingly changed over the ages and across continents. Every known civilization... Read more

The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings

By: Karl Marx

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely debated since its publication in 1848, The Communist Manifesto is one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Presenting an analytical approach to the problems of capitalism and the resulting class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, the text lays out the rationale and goals of communism as conceived by... Read more

Selections from the Writings of Cicero

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero wrote on a wide range of subjects, from Greek philosophy to moral duty to friendship. Though he considered philosophy secondary to politics and often used his writings for explicit political ends, his work has nevertheless been widely read for over two thousand years and has influenced... Read more

Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, first published in 1886, presents a scathing critique of traditional morality and attacks previous philosophers for their blind acceptance of Christian ideals of virtue. As an alternative to what he viewed as the illogical and irrelevant philosophy of the nineteenth century, Nietzsche argues for the... Read more

Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, said to be dedicated to Aristotle's son Nicomachus, is widely regarded as one of the most important works in the history of Western philosophy. Addressing the question of how men should best live, Aristotle's treatise is not a mere philosophical meditation on the subject, but a practical examination that aims to... Read more

Was ich Glaube - Abridged

By: Hans Küng

Narrated by: Hans Küng

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Gedanken und Erkenntnisse eines langen Lebensweges. Die neunteilige Vorlesungs-Reihe ist eine umfassende Einführung in eine zeitgemäße Spiritualität im Spannungsbogen von Theologie, Philosophie und Naturwissenschaften. - LEBENSVERTRAUEN (ca. 76 Min.) - LEBENSFREUDE (ca. 73 Min.) - LEBENSWEG (ca. 78 Min.) - LEBENSSINN (ca. 75... Read more

L'art d'avoir toujours raison

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

Narrated by: Pierre-François Garel

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

L'art d'avoir toujours raison est un précis à usage des disputeurs, des contradicteurs et de toute personne ayant pour but de faire éclater la grande vérité (réelle ou fantasmée) de ses propres thèses. Ces techniques applicables en tout lieu et en toute époque peuvent être utilisées pour faire tomber les arguments falacieux d'adversaires. Très... Read more

Munindra: A Teacher's Teacher

By: Mirka Knaster, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Mirka Knaster wrote Living This Life Fully: Stories and Teachings of Munindra, in collaboration with Robert Pryor. She interviewed some 200 people around the world, including such prominent teachers and writers as Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Ram Dass, Jack Kornfield, Daniel Goleman, and a host of others. In sharing this venerable teacher... Read more

The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 19 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1905, The Varieties of Religious Experience is a collection of lectures given at the University of Edinburgh in 1901 and 1902. William James was a psychologist and, as such, his interest in religion was not that of a theologian but of a scientist. In these twenty lectures, he discusses the nature and origin of religious belief.... Read more

Utopia

By: Sir Thomas More

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Thomas More's Utopia has spurred debate, reflection, and critical thinking since its original publication in the sixteenth century. More's fictional island of Utopia provides an exploration of issues that shook him and his contemporaries and that continue to be problematic in the modern day. The details of More's utopian society, such as the... Read more

The Most Human Human

By: Brian Christian

Narrated by: Brian Christian

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human. Its starting point is the annual Turing Test, which pits artificial intelligence programs against people to determine if computers can “think.”

Named for computer pioneer Alan Turing,... Read more

What Can I Do?

By: David Livermore

Narrated by: Tom Parks

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

While “missions” used to be the territory of experts and missionary professionals, globalization has made the issues and needs of our world accessible to average Americans. Many American Christians feel overwhelmed by the scope of the brokenness in the world and conclude all they can do is go on with their lives. Others respond by giving and... Read more